Baby Talk: Marie's First Weeks

Warning: this post contains excessive amounts of baby photos  

Hi All! Just wanted to check in with a quick photo montage of our life with Miss Marie.* We have successfully survived our first two weeks as a little family of three and while it is admittedly not an easy endeavor, we have been enjoying every single moment with our sweet, sweet gal.

I brought my nice camera with us to the hospital and have been snapping a generous amount of pics on my phone, so here are just a few of my favorites...  

All snuggled up at the hospital. The hospital where we delivered - Mount Elizabeth Orchard - was nothing short of amazing. The facilities and nurses were top notch and we were in very, very good hands. They even offer a complimentary limo service to take you home with baby(!)

Her hospital-issued blanket may or may not have been from the Hello Kitty family... 

#FirstFamilySelfie  

Brown-eyed girl. 

My hands look like the cover of that Tina Fey book. 

I <3 this pic. 

Heart is bursting. 

So happy to be home sweet home... 

I have tons of cute pics of Michael and the baby - mom is still working on becoming photo ready ;)

Looking extra sweet on dads first day back to work. 

Baby yawns are just the sweetest. Here she is in her pram. We've been trying to take a daily walk in the morning. So far she loves getting out of the house, but the issue is if we miss our window of time it becomes way too hot for her (most everyday is in the low 90's / feels like 100 which is not good for such a teeny human).  

B-day shout out to Uncle Johnny! 

We successfully made the rounds at the doctors last week. Here is our sweet, sweet, ultra amazing Dr. D. who delivered our babe.  

Cheeeeeeese! 

We also tackled newborn photos - which wore us ALL out. 

Michael loves taking her out to explore the balcony and picking her a fresh flower for her hair :)

Things she enjoys at 2 weeks: getting just her left hand out of her swaddle (possibly left-handed like mom?), ripping her mittens off and scratching her face, screaming her head off while on her changing mat, growing the sweetest little rat tail of hair, sleeping a 4hr and 3hr stretch at night, having her hair combed (diva) and being extra cute just for dad. 

That's about all for now. We can't wait for our first round of family visitors to arrive at the end of this week!  So much love from Singapore. 

 XO,

CD, MD & MD

*Many people have asked how we came up with the name Marie. Basically we have a few Mary's in our family (both of Michael's grandmothers, my moms middle name, and a few others) and we knew we wanted a French name since 'Duvall' is of French origin, so Marie was an easy choice for us. We only recently decided on her middle name. Noelle is my given middle name that I had recently given up once we got married and I changed my name so it was nice to bring it back into the family :)